Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation

From Graces Guide
1927.
1927.
Exhibit at Internal Fire Museum of Power. (Detail).

Pump makers, of Laidlaw Works, Cincinnati, USA

1916 The Worthington Co was incorporated in Virginia, USA. The Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation took over the International Gas Engine Co (Ingeco) and all of the other subsidiary companies owned by the International Steam Pump Co. The company also acted as sales agent for Henry R. Worthington.

1917 The name of the British Worthington Pump Co was changed to Worthington Simpson Ltd when control passed into the hand of American associates.

1936 Worthington Simpson a British public company issued preference shares to fund its purchase out of the American parent; agreements were put in place to continue connections with Worthington Pump and Machinery Co of Richmond, VA, USA[1].


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, 11 August 1936